Review Questions

Review Questions. Questions for the test will come from this set of questions.

Ancient Conceptions of Politics

Thucydides

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Lecture 1, on the Peloponnesian War.
Lecture 2, on Thucydides (the Melian dialogue), and beginning on Aristotle.

Aristotle

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Lecture 2, on Thucydides (the Melian dialogue), and beginning on Aristotle.
Lecture 3, on natural communities and slavery.
Lecture 4, on citizenship and imperfect regimes.
Lecture 5, on the role of the people and on monarchy and aristocracy.
Lecture 6, on the best regime and beginning on Cicero.

Cicero

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Lecture 6, beginning on Cicero.

Just War

Aquinas

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Lecture 7, on just war.

Erasmus

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Lecture 8, mostly on Erasmus.

Vitoria

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Lecture 8, on Erasmus and Vitoria.

New Conceptions of Politics

Machiavelli

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Lecture 9, mostly on Machiavelli (with some remarks on Vitoria).
Lecture 10.
Lecture 11, mostly on the Discourses.

The State of Nature

Hobbes

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Lecture 12 on Hobbes and the State of Nature.
Lecture 13 on Hobbes and Rousseau.

Rousseau

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Lecture 13 on Hobbes and Rousseau.
Lecture 14 mostly on Rousseau (with a little recap on Hobbes).

Democracy and Intervention

Mill

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Lecture 15, on Mill and representative democracy.
Lecture 16, on Mill, democracy, and empire.
Lecture 17, on Mill and empire.

Perpetual Peace

Kant

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Lecture 18, on Kant and perpetual peace.
Lecture 19, on Kant and Hegel.

Hegel

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Lecture 19, on Kant and Hegel.
Lecture 20, on Hegel.
Lecture 21, on Hegel and Marx.

Marx

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Lecture 21, on Hegel and Marx.